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Spelling and typing supports can now be funded through portions of the developmental disability waiver system — ensuring nonspeaking Vermonters have access to the communication that works best for them.
Affirms the right to communicate, to access supports and technology, to be understood, to autonomy, and to equality. Advocates are pushing the Senate to advance this landmark legislation strengthening ADA protections for nonspeakers.
Featured NBC News broadcast and accompanying article on families fighting to protect spelling and supported typing as a right for nonspeaking communicators.
Judy Chinitz on her nonspeaking son Alex finding language through spelling — and the case for state legislation protecting communication choice.
Coverage of the family's opposition to amendments weakening the New York Communication Bill of Rights.
Op-ed arguing for stronger protections for nonspeaking New Yorkers' right to communicate using the method that works for them.
Labor and advocacy coverage of the Communication Bill of Rights campaign.
Families describe "life-changing" results from keyboard typing and letter-pointing instruction with Spellers Method Charleston.
Local broadcast on Access S2C teaching nonspeaking adults and children to spell their thoughts on a letterboard.
Clinician Debra Brause, Psy.D., describes how Spelling to Communicate (S2C) changed one young woman's life and what it taught her practice.
Elizabeth Bonker, valedictorian at Rollins College, delivers her commencement address via text-to-speech: a computer keyboard "unlocked my mind from its silent cage."
National coverage of Bonker's address — chosen by her fellow valedictorians to speak for the class of 2022.
Network broadcast feature on a nonspeaking autistic communicator using a letterboard and keyboard to deliver her own words.
First-person account from Elizabeth Bonker on her education, her nonprofit work, and unlocking communication via typing.
Profile of Ido Kedar — nonspeaking author and honor-roll student mainstreamed into high school after learning to type.
Lesley Stahl's segment on nonspeaking autistic people communicating for the first time using tablets and AAC apps — early national coverage of the breakthrough.
Broadcast segments, news features, and on-camera interviews with nonspeaking communicators. 23 videos.
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65K viewsJournalism and written features about nonspeaking communicators and the spelling, typing, and letterboard methods they use. 115 articles.
Feature-length films telling the story of nonspeaking communicators in their own words.
Feature documentary following eight nonspeaking autistic people who learned to spell on letterboards — and the families and practitioners who supported them.
Award-winning documentary about Jordyn Zimmerman, a nonspeaking autistic woman who graduated from college and now advocates for inclusive education. Proceeds support the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network.
The father-and-son memoir that inspired SPELLERS — Jamie Handley's own account of breaking out of nonspeaking silence through letterboard spelling.
Memoirs, anthologies, and scholarly volumes — most written or co-written by nonspeaking authors themselves. See our Library for the current reading list.
Eye-gaze patterns inconsistent with facilitator authorship in nonspeaking autistic typists.
Argues for a motor-and-sensory framework in clinical and research practice.
Methodological critique of the 1990s study design.
Public entities (schools, healthcare, government) must provide auxiliary aids and services so communication with disabled people is as effective as with others. Supported typing falls within this scope.
Federal special-education law requires communication needs to be addressed for students whose primary mode is not reliable speech.
Multiple US states have introduced or passed bills affirming the right to access AAC and supported communication in educational and medical settings.
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